48 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



steers and heifers was the same, only with this difference : that the steers 

 were allowed 1^ lbs. of beans and 10 lbs. of potatoes more per beast 

 than the heifers, each day. 



" One lot of the heifers and one of the steers was put upon steamed 

 food, and the other lot of heifers and steers was put upon raw food. 



" Both lots, the cattle on steamed as well as raw food, were fed three 

 times a day — at daybreak, at noon, and lastly an hour before sunset. 



" The bruised beans were given to the lots on raw food at noon, the 

 potatoes one half in the morning, and the other half at noon. 



" In both cases, the greatest attention was paid to give both those on 

 raw and those on steamed food, as much as they could eat, but no more, 

 so that their food might be as nearly as possible eaten up at the times of 

 refeeding ; this being, in the opinion of the reporter, always a prime 

 consideration in every case of feeding, so that the stalls may always be 

 kept clean, and regularly cleared of the refuse. * * * 



" We very soon discovered that the cattle on the steamed food con- 

 sumed considerably more turnips than those on the raw food, having 

 laid down for the three heifers on raw food two cart-loads, containing 

 together 25 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lbs. of turnips, and at the same time the like 

 quantity for the three heifers on steamed food ; but at the end of four 

 days, very few turnips were left to put into the steam-tub, while appa- 

 rently little more than the half of those laid down for the raw food were 

 consumed. "We then added another load of 12 cwt. 2 qrs. of turnips to 

 the steam, and at the end of seven days the three heifers on the raw 

 food had consumed the quantity laid down for them, while the three on 

 steamed food bad consumed the same quantity, and very nearly the 

 whole of the additional quantity of 12^ cwt., at least all but about a half 

 tub of 250 lbs. of raw turnips ; and in order to be very correct, we pro- 

 ceeded to weigh the steamed turnips which were left unconsumed, when 

 we found they only weighed 195 lbs. This circumstance of the weight 

 being much less than we expected, put us on making a series of experi- 

 ments, of the difference of the weight when put in raw and after being 

 steamed, the result of which will afterwards be detailed ; and also in 

 ascertaining, by a more lengthened expei'iment, the relative quantities of 

 food consumed by each lot of cattle. 



" On this first and short experiment during one week of seven days, 

 the three heifers on raw food had consumed, as before stated, 25 cwt. 

 1 qr. 14 lbs. of Swedish turnips, 3 cwt. 3 qrs. of potatoes, and G3 lbs. of 

 bruised beans, being at the rate of 135 lbs. of turnips, 20 lbs. of potatoes, 

 and 3 lbs. of bruised beans for each beast per day. While the three 

 heifers on steamed food had consumed in the same sj^ace of seven days 

 about 37 cwt. IG lbs. of turnips, being at the rate of 190 lbs. of turnips, 

 20 lbs. of potatoes, and 3 lbs. of bruised beans per day for each beast, a 



